Mills County, Iowa welcomes you.
We are a new project and always looking for volunteers.
This site is available for adoption. If you are interested
please email the SA
and ask about the opportunities in hosting a site on Trails to
the Past.

Mills County was
primarily a farming community immigrants coming from the east
and a lot moved on from Illinois as land opened up west of the
Mississippi River. Before and after the Civil War
immigrants started to move west as the farming areas where they
lived were getting over crowded. They could sell off their
farms and buy more land cheaper in unsettled areas. There
were a lot of hardships starting over, buying land, building a
home and buildings on the property, clearing the land. It
took good strong men and women to deal with these hardships.
Those that made it are the men and women who built our country
for you and for me. They were our forefathers.